commit d78d3b4541e4549ef014325f965639ffbe962ea9
author Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> Sat Aug 11 15:36:45 2007 +0000
committer Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> Sat Aug 11 15:36:45 2007 +0000
tree 986ec64bba7146ecfbfc078fc4c45a0e755ca18e
parent 10f07c41e60d2323c3dc1f69be14b5a30b7400c6

Fall back to ascii if the locale module cannot be loaded.

Lib/io.py

diff --git a/Lib/io.py b/Lib/io.py
index 4ee7cef..b24a21c 100644
--- a/Lib/io.py
+++ b/Lib/io.py
@@ -976,8 +976,13 @@
             except AttributeError:
                 pass
             if encoding is None:
-                import locale
-                encoding = locale.getpreferredencoding()
+                try:
+                    import locale
+                except ImportError:
+                    # Importing locale may fail if Python is being built
+                    encoding = "ascii"
+                else:
+                    encoding = locale.getpreferredencoding()
 
         self.buffer = buffer
         self._encoding = encoding